Wednesday, 20 November 2013 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (EST)

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Academic and popular notions about what constitutes academic and activist practices are too often fraught with assumptions that are “based on a series of taken-for-granted and highly problematic ontological dichotomies, including mind/body, theory/practice, reason/emotion, abstract/concrete and ‘ivory tower’/ ‘real world’.”[1] This workshop on protest and political change bridges the divide between activism and academics in four ways: first, by reviewing local and global contexts of student activism; second, by showing that it is possible to bring social justice into higher education; third, by demonstrating that doing so not only affords opportunities for engaging class experiences, but that it also sets the tone for civic engagement; and fourth, by learning from one another through sharing experiences and tactics of protest and activism.